• Unraveling the complexity of the rhomboid serine protease 4 family of Babesia bovis using bioinformatics and experimental studies 

      Gallenti, Romina Josefina; Hussein, Hala E.; Alzan, Heba F.; Suarez, Carlos Esteban; Ueti, Massaro W.; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Benitez, Daniel Francisco; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Rolls, Peter; Sibeko, Kgomotso; Schnittger, Leonhard; Florin-Christensen, Mónica (MDPI, 2022-03)
      Babesia bovis, a tick-transmitted apicomplexan protozoon, infects cattle in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. In the apicomplexans Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, rhomboid serine protease 4 ...
    • Unravelling chemical cues used by Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae ) during host search 

      Devescovi, Francisco; Fernández, Patricia; Bachmann, Guillermo Enrique; Nussenbaum, Ana Laura; Segura, Diego Fernando (FAO-IAEA, 2022-11)
      Parasitoid wasps are attracted to their hosts using associated volatile compounds. In an static air olfactometer, it was shown that Diachasmimorpha longicaudata females oriented towards oranges with direct or indirect signs ...
    • Unveiling the genetic basis of Sclerotinia head rot resistance in sunflower 

      Filippi, Carla Valeria; Zubrzycki, Jeremias Enrique; Di Rienzo, Julio Alejandro; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Alvarez, Daniel; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Escande, Alberto; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BMC, 2020-07)
      Background: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a necrotrophic fungus that causes Sclerotinia head rot (SHR) in sunflower, with epidemics leading to severe yield losses. In this work, we present an association mapping (AM) approach ...
    • Ursolic acid : a novel antiviral compound inhibiting rotavirus infection in vitro 

      Tohmé, M. J.; Giménez, M. Cecilia; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Colombo, M. I.; Delgui, Laura Ruth (Elsevier, 2019-11)
      Rotavirus is one of the leading causes of severe acute gastroenteritis in children under 5 years of age, mainly affecting developing countries. Once the disease is acquired, no specific treatment is available; as such, the ...
    • Use of adjuvant ISA VG 71 to produce neutralizing egg yolk antibodies against bothropic venom 

      Leiva, Carlos Leónidas; Cangelosi, Adriana; Mariconda, Virginia; Celi Castillo, Ana Beatriz; Joaquim, Patricia Estefania; Geoghegan, Patricia; Fernandez Miyakawa, Mariano Enrique; Chacana, Pablo (Springer, 2023-02)
      The use of egg yolk antibodies—IgY technology—represents an alternative to the production of mammalian immunoglobulins and has several advantages regarding animal welfare and lower costs of production. The use of adjuvants ...
    • Use of Chelex-100 for the molecular diagnosisof five animal pathogens 

      Tomazic, Mariela Luján; Hamer, Micaela; Bustos, Carla Paola; Arregui, Matias Ezequiel; Ascencio, Mariano; Saraullo, Vanina Rosa; Watanabe, Olivia; Brihuega, Bibiana Felicitas; Rodriguez, Anabel Elisa; Grune Loffler, Sylvia (Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 2021-06)
      Molecular tools have improved conventional veterinary diagnosis. Acid nucleic extraction is a key step for downstream applications. This work aimed to compare the DNA extraction method Chelex-100 resin (M1) ...
    • Use of molecular tools for the diagnosis of rangeliosis by Rangelia vitalii in Argentina: A case report 

      Borras, Pablo; Salvador, F.; Rinaldi, V.; Armitano, Rita Inés; Farber, Marisa Diana; Sanchez, R.; Mori, L.; Guillemi, Eliana Carolina (Elsevier, 2020-07)
      Vector-borne pathogens are responsible for serious emerging diseases and Rangelia vitalii, the etiologic agent of canine rangeliosis, is one of the most pathogenic tick-borne pathogens for dogs in South America. This ...
    • Use of the Leptospira sp. ligB C-terminus coding region as a diagnostic tool of animal leptospirosis 

      Saraullo, Vanina Rosa; Grune Loffler, Sylvia; Florin-Christensen, Mónica; Watanabe, Olivia; Hamer, Micaela; Martinez, Mara Leila; Brihuega, Bibiana Felicitas (Elsevier, 2021-10)
      Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis worldwide, and it can cause reproductive failures in livestock, while in humans may vary from a mild fever to multi-organ failure and death. Due to this, in this study, we ...
    • Use of touch-down polymerase chain reaction to enhance the sensitivity of Mycobacterium bovis detection 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Meikle, Virginia; Bernardelli, Amelia; Abdala, Alejandro Ariel; Tarabla, Hector Dante; Romano, Maria Isabel; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Sage Publications, 2005-05)
      The confirmatory diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) in animal samples is carried out by culture in Stonebrink media. However, culture is very slow because of the extremely long duplication time of the bacillus and ...
    • Uso actual y potencial de microorganismos para mejorar la nutrición y el desarrollo en trigo y maíz 

      Puente, Mariana Laura; Garcia, Julia Elena; Perticari, Alejandro (Ediciones INTA, 2009)
      El objetivo de esta publicación es revisar las principales características de Azotobacter, Azospirillum, Bacillus, Pseudomonas y Micorrizas, dar a conocer los beneficios obtenidos cuando son utilizados a campo y las ...
    • Uso de Brucella abortus como vector para la expresión de antígenos heterólogos 

      Sabio Y Garcia, Julia Veronica (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2012-03)
      La brucelosis es una zoonosis bacteriana causada por especies del género Brucella. B. abortus S19 es la cepa vacunal en uso en nuestro país. Debido a su capacidad para despertar una respuesta inmune celular y humoral, B. ...
    • Uso de la ecografía para el diagnóstico de gestación en cabras criollas con servicio estacionado libre = The use of ultrasonography to diagnose pregnancy in naturally paired Argentine creole crossbred does during the breeding season 

      Rossetti, Carlos Alberto; Bruttomesso, Mia Florencia; Rey Melcon, Paula; Castaño Zubieta, Mirta Raquel; Mellano, Juan Ignacio (Sociedad de Medicina Veterinaria, 2020-12)
      El diagnóstico anticipado de preñez es una práctica de gran importancia para asegurar un manejo productivo eficiente de las majadas caprinas. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la utilidad de la ecografía transabdominal ...
    • Utilización regional de baculovirus en el control de plagas hortícolas 

      Salvador, Ricardo; Niz, José María; Pedarros, Analía Soledad; Quintana, Graciela Mabel (Ediciones INTA, 2021-12)
      Los baculovirus son patógenos aislados de insectos, principalmente del orden Lepidoptera. Se caracterizan por su alta especificidad, pues poseen un espectro de hospedadores reducido, y por ser inocuos para artrópodos ...
    • Utilization of molecular and conventional methods for the identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from different water sources 

      Tortone, Claudia Andrea; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Gioffre, Andrea; Oriani, Delia Susana (Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2018-03)
      Background: The environment is the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) reservoir, opportunistic pathogens of great diversity and ubiquity, which is observed in the constant description of new species capable of causing ...
    • Vaccination against babesiosis using recombinant GPI-anchored proteins 

      Wieser, Sara Nathaly; Schnittger, Leonhard; Florin-Christensen, Monica; Delbecq, Stephane; Schetters, Theo (Elsevier, 2019-01)
      The increase in human babesiosis is of major concern to health authorities. In the USA, most of these cases are due to infections with Babesia microti, whereas in Europe B. divergens is the major cause of clinical disease ...
    • Vaccination against δ-retroviruses : the bovine leukemia virus paradigm 

      Gutierrez, Gerónimo; Rodriguez, Sabrina M.; de Brogniez, Alix; Gillet, Nicolas A.; Golime, Ramarao; Burny, Arsene; Jaworski, Juan Pablo; Alvarez, Irene; Vagnoni, Lucas Emilio; Trono, Karina Gabriela; Willems, Luc (2014-06)
      Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) are closely related d-retroviruses that induce hematological diseases. HTLV-1 infects about 15 million people worldwide, mainly in subtropical ...
    • Vaccines against bovine babesiosis: where we are now and possible roads ahead 

      Florin-Christensen, Mónica; Suarez, Carlos Esteban; Rodriguez, Anabel Elisa; Flores, Daniela; Schnittger, Leonhard (Cambridge University Press, 2014-10)
      Bovine babesiosis caused by the tick-transmitted haemoprotozoans Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and Babesia divergens commonly results in substantial cattle morbidity and mortality in vast world areas. Although existing ...
    • Vacuna “marcadora” contra el HVB-1 

      Sadir, Ana Maria (Gerencia de Comunicación e Imagen Institucional, DNA SICC, INTA, 2011-04)
      Investigadores del INTA trabajaron en el desarrollo de un producto que previene una enfermedad que provoca importantes pérdidas económicas y que permite diferenciar entre animales vacunados e infectados.
    • Validation of housekeeping genes for qPCR in maize during water deficit stress conditions at flowering time 

      Decima Oneto, Cecilia Andrea; Bossio, Adrian Ezequiel; Faccio, Paula Daniela; Beznec, Ailin; Blumwald, Eduardo; Lewi, Dalia Marcela (2017)
      Plant stress studies are increasingly being based on gene expression. The analysis of gene expression requires sensitive, precise, and replicable measurements for specific mRNA sequences. Real-time RT-PCR is nowadays the ...
    • Validation of reference genes for quantitative PCR in Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense L.) under glyphosate stress 

      Ulrich, Maria Noelia; Muñiz-Padilla, Esteban; Corach, Alejandra; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Tosto, Daniela Sandra (MDPI, 2021-08)
      Weeds are one of the main causes of the decrease in crop yields, with Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense L.) being one of the most significant. Weeds can be controlled by herbicides, but some have developed resistance. ...